From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Spring Rice
Date:
3 Aug 1837
Source of text:
The National Archives (TNA) (T1/4524 paper 25824)
Summary:
With the encouragement of several scientific gentlemen and supported by the opinions of the Presidents of the three Learned Societies, CD ventures to request a grant of £1000 from Government to cover the cost of 150 engravings to illustrate results of his Beagle collections.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project